Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

Johannes Roessler is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Warwick University. He has published articles on issues in the philosophy of mind, epistemology and cognitive development, and has co-edited three interdisciplinary volumes: Agency and Self-Awareness (2003), Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds (2004) and Perception, Causation and Objectivity (2011). This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Roessler's talk - "The Epistemic Role of Intentions" - at the Aristotelian Society on 5 November 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra is the author of Resemblance Nominalism (Oxford University Press, 2002) and co-editor of Real Metaphysics (Routledge, 2003). He has written many articles on metaphysics and early modern philosophy. He is a Fellow and Tutor at Oriel College, University of Oxford. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Rodriguez-Pereyra's talk - "Resemblance Nominalism, Conjunctions and Truthmakers" - at the Aristotelian Society on 22 October 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Sarah Broadie is in the Moral Philosophy Department at the University of St Andrews. She has previously worked in philosophy departments at Princeton, Rutgers, Yale, the University of Texas at Austin, and Edinburgh University. Her publications include Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle’s Physics (1982); Passage and Possibility: a study of Aristotle’s modal concepts (1982); Ethics with Aristotle (1991); Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics: Commentary, with translation by Christopher Rowe (2002); Aristotle and Beyond, Essays on Metaphysics and Ethics (2007); Nature and Divinity in Plato’s Timaeus (2011); Philoponus on Aristotle, Physics 4. 10-14 (on Time), translation and notes (2012). She is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Academia Europaea. This year's Presidential Address marks the official inauguration of Professor Sarah Broadie (St. Andrews) as the 105th President of the Aristotelian Society. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Broadie's address - 'Actual Instead' - at the Aristotelian Society on 8 October 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Michael Smith is the author of The Moral Problem (1994); Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (2004); and the co-author of Mind, Morality and Explanation: Selected Collaborations (2004), a collection of papers written in various combinations by Smith, Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit when they were colleagues at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. In 2004 Smith moved to Princeton University where is currently McCosh Professor of Philosophy. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Smith's talk - "Agents and Patients" - at the Aristotelian Society on 18 June 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Kieran Setiya was an undergraduate at Cambridge and a graduate student at Princeton. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, and is the author of Reasons without Rationalism (Princeton, 2007) and Knowing Right From Wrong (Oxford, forthcoming). This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Setiya's talk - "Knowing How" - at the Aristotelian Society on 14 June 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Michael Thompson received his PhD in Philosophy at UCLA, where he was a student of Philippa Foot. He is a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and was formerly an Assistant Professor at UCLA. He is the author of Life and Action (Harvard University Press 2008, 2012; Suhrkamp 2011) and "What is it to Wrong Someone?" in Reason and Value, ed. Wallace et al. (O.U.P. 2006). This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Thompson's talk - "You and I" - at the Aristotelian Society on 21 May 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Frank Jackson is a regular visiting professor at Princeton University and holds fractional research positions at The Australian National University and La Trobe University. He is a Corresponding Fellow of The British Academy. His publications include: Perception (Cambridge UP 1977), Conditionals (Blackwell1987), The Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, co-authored with David Braddon-Mitchell (Blackwell, 1996), From Metaphysics to Ethics (Oxford UP 1998), Language, Names, and Information (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Jackson's talk - "Leibniz's Law and the Philosophy of Mind" - at the Aristotelian Society on 14 May 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Fiona Leigh is a Lecturer in Philosophy at University College London, where she joined the Department in 2009, after earning her PhD (Monash). Fiona’s area of research specialty is Plato’s later metaphysics, especially Plato’s Sophist, and she has published papers in journals including Phronesis, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Aperion, and Journal of Philosophy of Education. Currently she is working on a monograph length reading of the Sophist, and is interested in the potentially positive role of art in Plato’s work. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Leigh's talk - "Restless Forms & Changeless Causes" - at the Aristotelian Society on 5 March 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Heather Logue is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on issues in metaphysics and epistemology, and particularly on issues concerning perceptual experience. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Logue's talk - "Why Naïve Realism?" - at the Aristotelian Society on 20 February 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Stacie Friend is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, where she has been teaching since 2007. Her research is at the intersection of aesthetics and philosophy of language and mind, focusing primarily on issues relating to fiction. She has published papers on the nature of fiction, discourse and thought about the non-existent, the metaphysics of fictional characters, emotional responses to fiction and tragedy and the cognitive values of literature. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Friend's talk - "Fiction as a Genre" - at the Aristotelian Society on 6 February 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.